About the Festival

Rooted in the community, yet looking to the international stage, Clonmel Junction Festival is now in its 18th year of bringing the best in live music, theatre, street performance, comedy, visual art, food events and much, much more to Clonmel and the surrounding regions.

This year will see CJAF celebrating the wealth of talent on our own doorstep, by placing them front and centre in our Home-grown Heroes strand.

Mission
Statement

Clonmel Junction Arts Festival will mount, on an annual basis, a stand-alone festival of high-quality artistic events and will present other entertainment projects throughout the year in order to meet the cultural needs of the public and to promote the locality as a centre of the arts.

History
of the Festival

The
first Junction Festival was in 2001. It was a modest affair with four
theatre shows each playing one performance, one comedy performance
and a few sessions in the pub. All events sold out completely. With
such enthusiasm it was decided to turn Clonmel Junction Festival into an
annual event. The Festival then introduced the street art programme which
has become such a distinctive part of the event in the subsequent
years. The Festival has been growing year after year and has played host
to musicians such as Damien Rice, KT Tunstall, The Ruby Sessions,
Kila, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Foy Vance, Pete PAMF, Kasai Masai, Adama
Yalomba, Jack L, Mary Black and The Dubliners.

Other
notable features of Clonmel Junction Arts Festival include the
participation programme, whereby artists work alongside local schools
and community groups to produce work that appears in the Festival.